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digiKam Software Collection 2.6.0 is out...

Submitted by digiKam on Thu, 2012-06-07 11:03

Dear all digiKam fans and users!

digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam Software Collection 2.6.0.

With this release, digiKam include a lots of bugs fixes about XMP sidecar file supports. New features have been also introduced to last Coding Sprint from Genoa. You can read a resume of this event to dot KDE web page. Thanks again to KDE-ev to sponsorship digiKam team...

digiKam include now a progress manager to control all parallelized process running in background. This progress manager is also able to follow processing from Kipi-plugins.

Also, a new Maintenance Tool have been implemented to simplify all maintenance tasks to process on your whole collections.

Kipi-plugins includes a new tool to export your collections to ImageShack Web Service. Thanks to Victor Dodon to contribute.

digiKam have been ported to LCMS version 2 color management library by Francesco Riosa. Also a new tool dedicated to manage colors from scanned Reversal Films have been implemented by Matthias Welwarsky.

I released digiKam 2.6.0 for windows last night, built against KDE 4.8.3 and Qt 4.8.0. Installer is now more robust, handling uninstall of old versions, and requiring reboot only with previous versions of digiKam in rare cases. Some old bugs in underlying KDE have been closed for Windows in this version including a bug which prevented files from being moved or deleted from within digiKam. I will try to release 2.7.0 soon. You can download the new release from here.

Hi
Digikam is a great software, however, every update is not so straightforward to install.
Compiling from source could take a while depending on the computer (1h30 on mine).
The ppa suggested for ubuntu (ppa:philip5/extra) also have a wide collection of others software that most digikam user are not interested in updating via this ppa.
Could we hope for a real Digikam only ppa? That will be fantastic.
Julien

Hi everybody,
an "offical" ppa is imho the most important point - people use old versions for years because of this missing ppa (including me).
I personally dont know this "philip5", maybe he is smart, a nice guy and i should meet him. But, and its a big but: i would _never_ use such a ppa on my system.

And i cant understand why there is no "offical" ppa.

PLEASE: go on with this...

and, of course: good work, i very much appreciate this program and the philosophy behind! Thank you, guys (and girls...)!!

Please ask that from your distributor or their unstable/testing packages to take latest.

Every distribution community has few great packagers who contribute to their community by packaging latest versions of specific software outside of distribution official maintenance process so users don't need to wait latest distribution release.

DigiKam team does not compile packages for different distributions but just source packages for distributors and their community to distribute latest digiKam for their users.

I can appreciate your apprehension about using Phillip's PPA but with a quick look at his Launchpad User page (https://launchpad.net/~philip5) you can see that he has been a member since 2007, he has signed the Ubuntu Code of Conduct, has a very high Karma rating 600+ and is a member of many Ubuntu teams. I too am security conscious but after my investigation I feel good about this PPA. If my computers melts down into a puddle of goo tomorrow then I tried at least.

Ubuntu PPA isn't meant for official and stable systems but for users who are willing to risk stability and security of their systems to get latest or tweaked versions of software.

If someone already maintains PPA for digiKam, you can install and update only the digiKam without upgrading other packages from same PPA.

You can do that by learning how to upgrade or install manually for PPA without doing full system upgrade.
Sometimes digiKam needs latest KDE platform or libraries what have not been backported to latest Ubuntu release.

If you add philip5 ppa and you have bevore install digikam from the ubuntu sorce (and e.g. gimp) after update, there are only the files for digilam and (gimp) to update in the software center. After update you disable this ppa up to the next update.

Thanks. Can we expect a windows version in days, weeks, or months? Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful that you provide one at all. But since the older versions didn't work properly on my system, it would be really help to know when I will be able to coninue working on my archive again.

I released digiKam 2.6.0 for windows last night, built against KDE 4.8.3 and Qt 4.8.0. Installer is now more robust, handling uninstall of old versions, and requiring reboot only with previous versions of digiKam in rare cases. Some old bugs in underlying KDE have been closed for Windows in this version including a bug which prevented files from being moved or deleted from within digiKam. I will try to release 2.7.0 soon. You can download the new release from here.

I tried several times to install digikam on OSX (SL) but never succeded.
So i read about the new version these days and gave it another try but also failed.
I tried using macports.
So of course you do not have big interest in helping apple fanboys, so i would anyway appreciate any help, tips, or links to people who succeded in installing up to date digikam on osx

In the first place i submitted an error for 2.6 RC where the mysql connection couldn't be established and results with "Driver not loaded". This was fixed in your mentioned tutorial with the commandsudo port -v install qt4-mac +mysql

By trying to make a clean and simple install viasudo port install digikam

Wel, reinstalling mysql with the above command works fine. Anyway adding removable storages types can't be recognized on MAC OSX 10.7 (think this won't be any problem at all) … but using the file browser give me anKDEInit could not launch 'dolphin'
I'm going to submit this to the ticket system. This post was just for intel if anyones looking for a solution.

I just went through the Macports installation of version 2.6.0. Everything seemed to work fine. First time I started it up, I launched dbus manually first, then went to the launchpad of the mac computer and clicked on the digikam icon. It started up and went through the first time configuration. then died. Now, every time I start it up, i scans the directories, then goes to "checking ICC repository" and dies at this point. Any ideas?

maybe a little late for that. I uninstalled all the ports I had (I'd only ever tried this one) and started fresh following your directions from a previous post on how to install. Everything went well up to the 'make' command. It failed at about 95% complete with the following: